Arie Jan Haagen-Smit is now considered the “Father of Air Pollution Control”, and his work had a significant impact on plant, human and environmental health. And this all happened, because some ignorant American Scientists derided Auxin as European Hoax. 🧪 #ScienceHistory #SciHis #PlantScience

The Origins of Agar First introduced into laboratories in 1881, agar remains indispensable as a culture medium.

Another really interesting #SciHis Story by @asimovpress.bsky.social.

Goes to show that there are interesting and curious stories and facts in everything - even little things like Agar that seem simple and straightforward.
www.asimov.press/p/agar

#ScienceHistory #MolecularBiology #Agarose #Seaweed

𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗡𝗼. 𝟰:

𝗗𝗮𝗶𝘀𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱-𝗗𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗶𝘅

One of the discoverers of restriction enzymes who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies.

#SciHis #Cloning #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more - Photosynthesis Research This is a tribute to a truly inspirational plant biologist, Prof. John A. Raven, FRS, FRSE (25th June 1941– 23rd May 2024), who died at the age of 82. He was a leader in the field of evolution and phy...

📜 John Raven, FRS, FRSE: a truly great innovator in plant physiology, photosynthesis and much more

🧑‍🔬 A. W. D. Larkum, J. Beardall, et al.

📔 Photosynthesis Research

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#️⃣ #PlantScience #SciHis #PlantSciHis #Obituary #PlantScienceHistory

Rembob'INA-Apostrophes spécial sciences, en compagnie d'Hubert Reeves (1981)-jeudi 5 décembre à 20h30 Inédit | LCP - Assemblée nationale Hommage à l’astrophysicien disparu il y a un an, avec l’émission qui le révéla au grand public ».

Ne manquez pas cette emission sur la perception publique des sciences en 1981, avec Hubert Reeves, François Jacob, Pierre Thuillier et Yves Delange #scihis

lcp.fr/presse/commu...

From bacterial operons to gene therapy: 50 years of the journal Cell Recombinant DNA technology has profoundly advanced virtually every aspect of biological and medical sciences, from basic research to biotechnology. He…

📜 From bacterial operons to gene therapy: 50 years of the journal Cell

🧑‍🔬 Tom Maniatis

📔 Cell

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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